17 Songs for a Rockin’ Dance Party With Your Kids

Inside: Next time you or the kids have a case of the crankies, fire up this playlist of dance music for kids and boogie away the bad mojo. (No Yo Gabba Gabba here!)

In our family, the person who makes it home first from work or school on a Friday afternoon has an important responsibility: Set everything up for our official Friday night family dance party.

Here’s how it works:

Clear the living room floor of LEGOs and baby teethers,

Queue up our playlist of the best kids’ dance songs, and

Crank the volume.

And if you’re the last person home?

Nothing beats that feeling of walking in the door, hearing the notes of happiness reverberate through the house, and stepping into the living room to see your whole family dancing and giggling.

A family dance party is one of the best ways to connect with your kids after a day apart – or if you’re just feeling cooped up indoors because of cold/rainy/sweltering weather. Plus, dancing is good for your health in lots of ways, from heart health to stress levels and more.

17 Happy Kids’ Dance Songs That Parents Love, Too

Here’s a playlist that’s fun for the whole family to shake their booties to. These contemporary, upbeat tunes have clean language, but unlike most dance music for kids, they’re not so kiddish that you’ll lock yourself in the bathroom til they’re over. Yo Gabba GAG ME.

Next time you and/or the kids have a bad case of the crankies, fire up a few of these songs and dance away the bad mojo. (Research shows that babies and toddlers especially get a big dose of happy when moving their bodies to a rhythmic beat.)

You’ll tire the kids out before bedtime, plus you’ll burn a few calories yourself. Which means you can skip working out, or at least skip feeling guilty for not working out.

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Arts of Eska

Honestly, I am not sure how I found you through the web but I am currently smitten. I do have to agree with you on several of your rockin’ kids dance songs. I’m currently riding the Riptide and Bastile’s Pompeii.

I found my rockin’ songs a different way though. I downloaded Pandora Radio on my iphone and select the Children’s Indie Radio Station they have. After a little guidance through like/dislike votes I have it fine tuned. It’s so good that I will listen to it whenever I want a happy pick me up, kids or no kids.

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Kelly

Smitten? *blush* Thank you! That is quite a nice compliment. :-)

We’re just sitting around enjoying coffee and watching the kids be silly this morning, so I’m going to play Bastile’s Pompeii for the kids right now!

I love your Pandora suggestion too. I’ve used Pandora, but I’m so impatient so I end up thumbs-downing my whole allotment right away, then I get stuck listening to junk I can’t skip and I just give up. I should give it another go though, thank you for the reminder about it!

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Sybil Brun

Kelly you are such a good writer! Honestly – how do you make it look so darn easy? This is the second post of yours I’ve read in one day and I am so impressed! Have to share this one too : )

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Erica Layne

Thanks so much for this! Sharing tomorrow on Facebook!

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AskMamaMOE

I love this post – and your pictures are adorable! I’m a big believer in good music for families too. My suggestion for you is an awesome song if you haven’t thought of it yet: Can’t Get Next To You by The Temptations – it’s an oldie but a goody! My boys love it! :)

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Kelly

Oh, that is a good one! Thank you for adding your pick to the discussion. :-)

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rohit aggarwal

thanks for the information

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